Originally Posted by
jondoyle
Are we all done? 😁
Well, while I appreciate the reference detective work... no.
On account of
1) The original question being about descending on an approach and not arrival, and
2) The particular example being that they were cleared with the verbiage of "cleared" (and not "descend via,") which according to your reference should give an answer of
can not descend; but controller in the story gave an answer of
yes, descend.